Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Innsbruck University, Austria and Visiting Professor of Economics, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary.

Arno Tausch is Adjunct Professor (Universitaetsdozent) of Political Science at Innsbruck University, Department of Political Science, Innsbruck University, Austria (since 1988). He entered the Austrian Civil Service on January 1, 1992, and retired from active service on February 29, 2016. He served as an Austrian diplomat abroad (1992-1999). In his multiple academic assignments, he was also Associate Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Guest Researcher, International Institute for Comparative Social Research, Science Center, West Berlin, upon invitation by the late Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. Since 1978, he taught numerous regular courses in political science, economics and sociology at Universities in Austria, Hungary, Switzerland and in the United States. He authored or co-authored books and articles for major international publishers and journals, among them 22 books in English, 2 books in French, 8 books in German, and currently 110 articles in peer-reviewed journals and also numerous press articles in the media of several countries. In all, his works were published or re-published in 34 countries around the globe.